BTW I couldn't sit still and let a wonderful word like macaronic just fly by! If like me you were left wondering what it was about and what relationship it has with pasta, here's a reference:

ADJECTIVE: 1. Of or containing a mixture of vernacular words with Latin words or with vernacular words given Latinate endings: macaronic verse.

2. Of or involving a mixture of two or more languages.

ETYMOLOGY:

New Latin macaronicus, from Italian maccheronea, macaronic verse, after Maccharonea, title of a work containing such verse by Tifi Odasi, 15th-century Italian author, from maccherone, maccaroni, course food.

How ya like them noodles?

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